If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.